This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the metallographic study of ancient metals. Metallography is important both conceptually as a microstructural science and in terms of its application to the study of ancient and historic metals....Lasīt vairāk

Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland and Scotland. Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuries is extremely accomplished technically, and she has aimed at a thorough understanding of its manufactu...Lasīt vairāk

This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hill...Lasīt vairāk

Examination of decorative elements applied to over 600 Egyptian coffins of the 21st Dynasty with a discussion on symbolism, chronology and status. Demonstrates how the deteriorating political and economic situation in Egypt was reflected in a m...Lasīt vairāk

This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the...Lasīt vairāk

Investigates the archaeology and economic development of an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region over 1000 years of Hellenistic and Roman rule. This volume investigates the interaction between the natural env...Lasīt vairāk

Presents the results of large-scale excavation and recording of Mount Grace Priory, Yorkshire and reviews its significance as a later medieval charterhouse. Owned by the National Trust and managed by English Heritage, Mount Gr...Lasīt vairāk

There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, econ...Lasīt vairāk

Presents a detailed archaeological survey of a small island that played a central part in maritime connectivities linking North-west France and Britain from the Neolithic to the 16th century...Lasīt vairāk

(Izdošanas datums: 25-Oct-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9789774169403)

Rameses IIIoften dubbed the last great pharaohlived and ruled during the first half of the twelfth century bc, a tumultuous time that saw the almost complete overthrow of established order in the eastern Mediterranean. Among Ramesess achievement...Lasīt vairāk

Carrick, Co. Wexford, is one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood medieval sites in Ireland. Built in the autumn and winter of 1169 by Robert Fitzstephen, one of the first knights to land at Bannow Bay, Carrick is the oldest Anglo-Norman fortifica...Lasīt vairāk

The second volume of Excavations at Mendes provides results of archaeological work in the temple area and dromos at the site of Tel er-Ruba, ancient Mendes, in the east central Nile Delta....Lasīt vairāk